"Qiu Ya?"
Ye Chuan hadn't expected the flesh monster to bring him here, let alone to find Qiu Ya sleeping peacefully in such a place.
Surrounded by rotting flesh and gore, Qiu Ya sat there, looking completely out of place.
"Gurgle... gurgle..." Just then, the flesh monster in front of him began to crawl toward Qiu Ya. "Sacrifice..."
The creature's body split open, looking as if it intended to swallow her whole!
Seeing this, Ye Chuan immediately kicked the flesh monster away. "Get lost!"
The flesh monster flew backward, rolling across the ground like a pile of sludge before squirming back up. "Gurgle... Kin..."
"Auntie... for you to eat... sacrifice..."
Its tentacles wriggled in the air, seemingly trying to curry favor with Ye Chuan, before it turned around and disappeared into the other carriages.
For some reason, it looked a little aggrieved.
"..." After watching the flesh monster vanish, Ye Chuan's gaze fell upon Qiu Ya. She was still asleep, quiet and motionless.
If it weren't for the rise and fall of her chest and the sound of her breathing, Ye Chuan might have thought she was dead.
"Hmm... she doesn't seem injured, and her physical condition appears stable." Ye Chuan reached out to check on Qiu Ya. After confirming she wasn't hurt, he decided to wake her up.
"Hey."
"Hey—"
Qiu Ya didn't react. It wasn't until Ye Chuan started considering a 'wake-up slap' that her eyelashes fluttered slightly, as if finally responding.
"Hmm?"
"Mmm... I'm so sleepy," Qiu Ya muttered to herself. She slowly opened her eyes and rubbed them.
"I think I had a nightmare."
"I dreamt that the drunk uncle turned into a monster... and then ate a guy."
As Qiu Ya mumbled, her gaze landed on Ye Chuan. "Oh, Little Brother?"
Upon recognizing Ye Chuan, Qiu Ya paused for a moment, seemingly unable to process the situation.
"I... You..."
"Huh? So, the things that happened just now... weren't they a dream?"
Ye Chuan observed Qiu Ya closely. After confirming there was no trace of acting in her expression, he pointed at the rotting flesh filling the carriage and the visceral world outside the window.
"You... how do you not have any reaction to this?"
"What reaction?" Qiu Ya looked at Ye Chuan curiously. "Little Brother?"
Ye Chuan frowned.
What was going on here?
A normal girl would probably be scared to death seeing the situation outside, right? How could she be so calm?
Unless...
A possibility suddenly occurred to Ye Chuan.
Could it be that he was the only one who could see the world looking like this?
To confirm his theory, Ye Chuan glanced out the window. He quickly spotted some severed limbs floating in the sky—they appeared to be floating structures composed of numerous corpses, looking exceptionally gruesome.
"Look at that."
"That?" Qiu Ya looked in the direction Ye Chuan was pointing, then asked in confusion, "Little Brother, what do you want Big Sister to look at?"
"That."
"Isn't that just a cloud?" Qiu Ya blinked, seemingly baffled.
Ye Chuan: "..."
Ye Chuan then pointed to a distant mountain piled high with flesh and gore. "What about that?"
"A mountain. It's lush and green," Qiu Ya said.
"..."
Now, Ye Chuan knew exactly what was happening.
His perspective was completely different from Qiu Ya's. However, Ye Chuan quickly realized the key factor.
He had drunk the alcohol.
Since the train hadn't reached the next station for a long time, Ye Chuan had chosen to actively violate the rules to see what would happen.
Clearly, the changes in the train—the flesh, the horrific scenes—were all consequences of breaking the rules.
Since Qiu Ya hadn't violated any regulations, the train still appeared normal in her eyes.
This was getting interesting.
Dual perspectives?
"Little Brother, I just had a dream that a drunk uncle turned into a monster," Qiu Ya said.
"That certainly sounds like a nightmare." Ye Chuan didn't respond directly to her; instead, he pondered what that monster he just saw would look like from Qiu Ya's perspective.
"Hmm..."
He was a bit curious now.
However, he didn't know where that creature had run off to.
With all its squelching and gurgling.
"Little Brother, aren't you going to sit?" Seeing Ye Chuan standing, Qiu Ya patted the seat next to her.
That seat had long since melted into a mass of flesh. In Ye Chuan's vision, every time Qiu Ya patted the seat, blood splattered onto his face.
Ye Chuan: "..."
Ye Chuan calmly wiped the filth off his face without a word.
Just then, a voice came over the broadcast—
"Next station... destination... 24 hours remaining..."
"Passengers, please safeguard your personal belongings. In case of emergency, you may seek an attendant..."
"Please obey the attendant's requests..."
"...Bzzzt..."
After listening to the broadcast, Ye Chuan hadn't said anything yet when Qiu Ya spoke up, looking puzzled.
"That's weird. Is the PA system broken? It's just making static noises; I couldn't hear a single word."
"The broadcast is broken?" Ye Chuan paused. Although what he heard was intermittent, he had clearly understood the general message.
So, in Qiu Ya's perspective, the broadcast was inaudible?
That meant not only was the scenery different in their respective views, but the clues they received were also different.
"The attendant..." Ye Chuan asked Qiu Ya, "Have you seen any attendants on this train?"
"No, I haven't. This train is so strange, though. Why aren't there any staff members?" Qiu Ya maintained her scatterbrained demeanor; she had clearly dismissed the monsters she saw earlier as nothing more than a nightmare.
As she spoke, Qiu Ya seemed to remember something and pointed to a spot not far away.
"But Little Brother, there's a call button over there to summon someone. Do you think we should give it a try?"
Ye Chuan looked in the direction she was pointing. In his vision, that area was a mass of dark red with absolutely nothing there.
"You're saying there's a button there?"
"Mhm."
"Why don't you try pressing it?" Ye Chuan suggested.
"You go do it, Little Brother. You're already standing, after all~" Qiu Ya giggled.
"I..." Ye Chuan couldn't see the button, so he naturally couldn't press it. He crossed his arms and suddenly quipped,
"I'm not tall enough."
"That's true." Qiu Ya took a look; it indeed would be a bit difficult for Ye Chuan.
She had no choice but to stand up and walk toward the button.
"I'm pressing it then?" Qiu Ya said.
e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
